What are the strangest "house rules" you've seen in a person's house?

[@jeffreyconde4144]

I feel incredibly sorry for the kids who grew up in these families

[@brettlarch8050]

Many of them developmentally delayed.

[@cakeisgayandtiktokgirlsbelike]

@@brettlarch8050 Yeah it sucks!

[@otakuking7041]

The one with not drinking liquid at the dinner table was not that bad,my parents are the same(most of the time) by that I mean I grew up like that but recently we have been able to drink at the table sometimes

[@mirzaahmed6589]

I have a theory that most people who choose to have kids are control freaks by nature.

[@hentaifromthe90s]

@@mirzaahmed6589 what

[@domiJB]

That one about hand sanitizer before entering the house, she was way ahead of her time

[@avidreader4140]

But there are people who can be allergic to hand sanitizer

[@eqqx1108]

Just igenic

[@sostrucking]

I know a woman, and her mom, who wouldn't let people hold her baby without washing hands and then hand sanitizer. Wouldn't let her daughter play on the ground. Never let her walk much and kid was always in stroller or cart at store. I was totally opposite. Her kid was always sick and my kids rarely got sick. I'm protective but not overprotective like that. I think this overprotective scared of the world is bad for kids. Just sanitizer one time before entering isn't too bad though.

[@Mustang6971]

Same about the rationing tp when they you can’t ration tp me that aged well.

[@Rayz9989]

@@sostrucking that's good

[@caf-fiend]

My mom was pretty weird, no, VERY weird about sweets in our house. "Dessert" was either plain yogurt with a tiny bit of honey, peanut butter and apples, or popcorn without any salt or butter. A kid who came over after school once got their fruit by the foot taken away from them by my mother, who threw it away. I got away with a few sweet things every once in a while if I traded something at lunch and snuck it home. If i got caught, I'd get either pine tar soap in my mouth or a spoonful of Sriracha I'd have to swallow. Not as crazy as some of these other ones, but still a little weird. Edit: I vividly remember sneaking bakers chocolate (chocolate that has no sugar in it) from the cupboard ad a child. Explains my love of dark chocolate now, lol.

[@acgraphics1139]

Your mum is literally crazy

[@wtfamidoingwithmylife1245]

@@acgraphics1139 Eh, yes it may seem a bit crazy, but she probably just didn't want her kids to be unhealthy. Although she definitely went about it the wrong way

[@girlie_ch33se20]

@@wtfamidoingwithmylife1245 There’s nothing wrong with having sweets every once in a while, your mom would literally make you eat soap if you had any kind of “normal” dessert. That’s not normal

[@wtfamidoingwithmylife1245]

@@girlie_ch33se20 I know that. Although I'm saying she wouldn't be crazy. Not letting her kids have anything artificially sweet is, yes, a bit extreme but I can understand that she wants her kids to be healthy. Although there is nothing wrong with something a bit sweet every now and then.

[@girlie_ch33se20]

@@wtfamidoingwithmylife1245 I mean making you swallow spoonfuls of hot sauce or tar soap if you did eat anything artificially sweet?? Sure seems “crazy”

[@ItsSoColdToday]

"I DON'T CARE IF HE DIES AS LONG AS YOU DON'T MAKE A MESS" - that one lady

[@Mr.Happy777]

I find it even funnier that the guy was a doctor with the username "Pokemon gangbang"

[@DarwinskiYT]

69 leik

[@dragonballgacha]

We need a subreddit for this called r/whyamistillmarried

[@sbh2888]

I heard a joke once-something like, officers respond to the scene where an older housewife shot her husband because he walked on the floors just after she mopped and they were still wet. The police chief radios the officers, asking if they brought the women in yet. They respond, “Negative Chief. The floor is still wet.”

[@marlenemaclean]

@@sbh2888 m,

[@InquisitorShepard]

11:10 that little girl sounds like the nightmare kid for a teacher that makes up stories that end careers. The kind of kid that force the teacher to record literally interaction with students if he doesn't want to be accused of something nasty.

[@kingfloridaman5274]

For real, how does it go from waking in to someone having to piss, to attempted rape

[@graduatedpinksnowball668]

It's just an accusation, so it will be proven wrong.

[@TheLastBlenderBender]

@@graduatedpinksnowball668 You clearly don't understand how detrimental an accusation like that can have. If a woman or god forbid a little girl accuses any male of something like that his life is ruined, even if it is proven false. There are so many cases like this

[@belladawna5014]

@@kingfloridaman5274 could of been the parents fluffing up the story too

[@kingfloridaman5274]

@@belladawna5014 true

[@tlang7616]

I don’t generally wear shoes in the house, it’s not weird to not want to track crap on the carpet. Otherwise, do whatever you want as long as you clean up after yourself.

[@supergoober1021]

Raising my family, my attitude for shoes on or off was simple: If you don’t want me to walk on your carpet, don’t put it on the floor. I had another rule for my Kids’s friends. Mostly in high school. When you come to see my boys, don’t make me open the door for you. If it’s not locked, just come in. Say “Hi” to me as you walk past. If it’s locked, it’s probably for a reason, so knock.

[@Murhuedur]

I don't get why weirdos get so mad about the no shoes rule. My grandparents would visit a lot and my mom had to buy my grandma a pair of slippers because she refused to not be wearing anything on her feet. When we visited my grandparents' new apartment for the first time, my grandpa said "We can all wear SHOES in here!"

[@Asher_0660]

Ikr it’s not that hard and tbh it kinda feels good to take off my shoes If I’ve been running or something

[@heavenlydusk]

I just wear slippers

[@coupledyetivonvanderburg5385]

@@supergoober1021 I like your style

[@sldwiseowl9041]

My parents made me ask for food. I wasn't allowed to eat anything any time of the day unless i asked my mother to eat and the majority of the time the answer was no. I'm now 19 living away from home and have had an eating disorder since i was 13. It sucks. And even now when I go home i she will scream at me if i eat a cracker without asking.... Let's just say i don't talk to her much anymore

[@Dice-Z]

Yikes, at least you're living away from them. Strenght be with you.

[@im-not-alex5471]

In my house growing up, there were locks on the outside of all the kids doors and the guest bathroom (the doorknobs were flipped) but all the doorknobs were broken and didn’t lock. Except for mine. But we weren’t allowed to shut our doors, unless we had friends over and they needed to change or something. My oldest sister usually had her door closed and slammed it a lot. Until one day her door wouldn’t open. So the doorknob was cut out of the door, it wasn’t replaced until 3 years after she moved out. I had helped my parents fix things a lot and for some reason, I had a knack for doorknobs, so when I was like 12, I flipped mine out of fear (me and my parents relationship was getting a little rocky) and I remember mother never noticed. I’m still living here (in my teens) and I’m realizing how literally (emotionally) abusive my mother was, because I thought all of this was normal.

[@fasdfdsdfs]

If you weren't allowed to shut your door then why the locks?

[@lavenderpaws4375]

@@fasdfdsdfs probably so the parents could lock them in their room if they wanted too

[@chriswashingtonbeats]

@@lavenderpaws4375 can u explain wot he means by flipped door handles

[@chriswashingtonbeats]

@@lavenderpaws4375 ohh so the doorknob had the lock on it thx

[@hicknopunk]

Coat hanger to open it?

[@dbspaceoditty]

soooo, there is a lot to unfold about the knocking thing. if you suffer from PTSD like i do (not from war. from living in the ghetto) when youve lived a point in your life where multiple times a week somebody is sneaking around your property trying to steal from you and hurt you. knocking is helpful. i got over it but my friends would all stomp up the stairs and hollar. the knocking lets you know the people in your house belong there. and especially in the country. its not good mentality to hear your door open and just accept it. thats how you get robbed and raped.

[@boethia7367]

Literally what I say. And doors should always be locked. I was ready to fight my roommate. I'm a woman with a little girl and he kept leaving the door unlocked. He called me paranoid.

[@katodrippy4230]

@@boethia7367 a room door or the home door

[@boethia7367]

@@katodrippy4230 Home door.

[@BasedRanger]

@@boethia7367 You are 100% in the right. I live way out in the country and when I moved here years ago from the city everybody thought I was strange for making sure my doors were locked. Crime has been ticking upwards over the last few years, and sadly there was a young girl who was forced recently. Bad people are everywhere. You can't be too safe if you have a kid.

[@miles6492]

Okay, except the kid literally took three steps and turned around. The mom SAW HIM LEAVE. SHE KNEW IT WAS HIM AT THE DOOR. PTSD my ass.

[@hothotheat3000]

Went to a friend’s house for the very first time to do homework and her dad was an absolute menace. He seemed nice enough in public, but the guy was a tyrant. No closed doors. “No one closes a door in my house!” The doors were ALL off the hinges, including bathrooms, so this guy could theoretically stroll right past and see my friend if she was peeing or showering, and that made me feel scared for her. I left the house after an hour and walked around the corner to use the bathroom in a convenience store bathroom because I didn’t want him to walk past and see me. This was before cell phones, so I asked the convenience clerk to call my parents. I’ll never forget the look of horror on the clerk’s face as he overheard me telling my dad where I was and why. I felt stupid, felt like I was in trouble and my friend would be in trouble, and started crying. The clerk took the phone from me and assured my dad that he would protect me until dad could get there. “She’s safe, she’s staying right here, sir. I give you my word.” He brought me behind the counter and gave me a big ass bag of chips on the house until dad pulled up and thanked him. Dad took me home and I never went back to that house. My parents went to that convenience store the next day with a home-cooked meal to thank that clerk for his compassion, and my dad ended up helping him get a better job at a lumber company owned by my dad’s friend. I still see that clerk occasionally and he’s a good person. Can’t thank him enough for those salt and vinegar chips.

[@dianedenham5259]

Wow, you were smart to get out.

[@hothotheat3000]

I was so scared at the time because I was taught to respect adults, but my parents made a point of telling me that I did the right thing and I wasn’t going to be punished. The worst thing was losing my friend, because she was angry I left the house and didn’t come back. I didn’t want to tell people what happened, but once she started talking shit about me in school, I spoke up to defend myself, told the whole story, said her dad was a monstrous creep, and said that if I was lying, she could invite everyone in class over to her house after school to verify whether her doors were off. She didn’t take the offer, even after another of her friends volunteered to walk inside with her. Kids put the pieces together and believed me. Word got around thanks to the kids and my parents not to go to her house. Kids started asking her if she showered with her dad or was having sex with him. She never spoke to me again. I didn’t want her to be embarrassed, but she was telling lies about me, so I set her straight. I feel sad, because I don’t think she ever saw anything weird about her life until I left, and the reaction of everyone else must’ve been hard for her to comprehend. She was new in our city and I think I must’ve been the first person she’d invited over. I kinda feel like I betrayed her somehow, even though it was a bad situation.

[@dianedenham5259]

@@hothotheat3000 : don't be hard on yourself. You were young, even an adult whose been around couldn't have handled it better. You have to be able to stand up for yourself. It's not your fault other people took their opinions to extremes. It's okay to feel bad about her situation, it would have been up to the adults that became aware of it to do something about it.

[@charlee_hotel]

@@hothotheat3000 Was CPS ever called by any chance? I had have CPS get called on me for less!

[@erikhermansen3431]

Salt and vinegar chips? So he's A secret sadist. I don't know which is worse, the door thing or the chips....(50% sarcasm)

[@ayuvir]

Me and my friends went to a mate's house because we were hanging out in the area. He had invited the others over once already but it was the first time for me. We had been out eating some greasy food and we all had to wash our hands. I promptly told the guy that I was gonna use the sink. Water starts flowing a normal steady stream when the dude flips his shit "don't you know how expensive water is?!". Turns the water stream down to a little stream, the kind that takes over a second to fill your hands if you cup them. I told him I'd need a bit more water since my hands were greasy, joking it'd take an hour to clean. Guy insisted, would turn the water off while I used the soap, and turned the water back on himself. He did this for 7 dudes, took us a while to get clean. Guy was living with his parents in a 4 floor mansion. His mom's car was a hummer. If you ever wondered why you aren't wealthy, spare on water.

[@sostrucking]

Gotta save somewhere to afford that mansion. What was the electric, TP, or flushing rules? Did they water the lawn?

[@ayuvir]

@@sostrucking Wasn't there long enough to have any of those come up. The toilet had a short and long flush button, glad he didn't go in there with me to check if I pushed the right one.

[@supergoober1021]

They will regret that when there’s a drought and the water service demands an across-the-board reduction by 25%.

[@mirzaahmed6589]

My maternal grandfather had the taps in his house set to just a trickle. It took forever to wash. My grandmother changed them to normal ones after he died. He also refused to let anyone use a remote control for the TV, because "modern inventions like that are making everyone lazy". It never occurred to him that watching TV isn't an especially active pursuit.

[@drazicmilosovic1065]

The “Gram” in that left-handed story is a f*ckin’ Boss!

[@thermophile1695]

If a grandma punches you in the face, what're you gonna do? You can't punch her back.

[@stickynote-slumber]

As a left hander, I f___ing LOVE this story. 20/10. By far, the best.

[@suzettekath9860]

@@stickynote-slumber I wish she had taken to task my man's ex-stepmother. My girl was a ambie until she had to stay with her grandpa and the bitch during a medical issue of mine. From that time after the time there. My girl has refused to use her left hand for things like writing, art, etc. Only time she will use her left hand is to get the tp and also to dress.

[@grace.9108]

My family was also like the one where the women/girls weren’t allowed to were pants/shorts and could only wear dresses, even when swimming, I remember cutting my hair once without them knowing and getting yelled at for hours. I remember just going back to my room eventually and just laughing to myself “aha this fucking sucks”

[@michaelwarner7311]

What were they yelling about Edit Ik they were yelling about u cutting ur hair I mean what were they saying like what were their reasons

[@grace.9108]

@@michaelwarner7311 it was because of religion, and how I have no glory if I cut my hair. Stuff like that, and how I was sinful now

[@shepherddog1199]

@@grace.9108 Islamic? Unfortunately I can't think of anything else. I hate households like this. Like, that shit gets hot in the summer! and anyway pants/shorts can sometimes be a lot more comfortable than dresses/skirts.

[@squidward2958]

Sounds like pentecostal (idk how to spell it) but I have friends who have ridiculously long hair and wear long sleeves and long skirts an crap even when it's hot, it's a religion thing ig

[@grace.9108]

@@shepherddog1199 your right but it was Pentecostal it was some uncomfortable shit indeed 😂

[@francescapatti2934]

The one about sanitising your hands before entering the house. She can see things before they happen. Its a jedi trait.

[@undeadladybug7723]

My sister and I were with our dad's family for winter break in 2003 (I was 8 and she'd just turned 3), and grandma dearest made us sleep in the basement. It was unfinished, spider-filled, with only a thin piece of loose carpet between the foundation and the leaky air mattress we were forced to sleep on, with only a sheet and one fairly thin blanket. They live in upstate New York and there was at least one blizzard while we were there. They had two couches in the living room we could have slept on, also a spare room in the attic where they could have put the air mattress, or even just sleeping bags, but nope. We both went home sick because of that bitch, and that wasn't even the first time.

[@burntpieceoftoast4148]

Being told I had to leave my door open and staying within sight after it was found out that I was bisexual and had a female friend over. it was usually my best friend who I wasn't into like that. Was just bizarre how much my guardian changed toward me and any female friend of mine I had over literally overnight.

[@isuckatnamingthings5499]

Were they like that with boys, too?

[@jdc5352]

Odd rule, but them doing that with girls at least means they took you seriously, if they were worried about you having sex and maybe contracting STDS, you could also be getting them from girls that you might be interested in. That also depends on the age that they made you do that as well.

[@noahlani6480]

Oh yeah my friends parent does the same, but you can tell she doesn’t like her being bi because my friends mom *encourages* her to try to do “things” with guys, but me and her hanging out at her house? Heck no, she watches us just in case I decide to make out with her. It’s insane how some people forget how to be a good person when they dislike something.

[@AdiG1]

What nutcase decided that having towels and soaps as decor only was a good idea?

[@supergoober1021]

I’ve been in houses like that, too. Some little ball of smelly soap cast in the shape of a duck or some other character, then only a set of brand new looking decorative hand towels hanging up with a stitched in band of ribbon and embroidery on them. I just go ahead and use them. It’s not my problem. Maybe they’ll learn a lesson about hospitality for the next visitor.

[@michaelwarner7311]

What's even the point of those things as decorations aren't decorations supposed 2 b cool to look at it like oh wow a towel nevr seen that before

[@princessmarlena1359]

@@supergoober1021 I had a friend who claimed that she wiped her ass with the decorative towels when at her in-laws’ house. 😈

[@supergoober1021]

@@princessmarlena1359 I gotta remember that one! Thanks for the idea!!

[@princessmarlena1359]

@@supergoober1021 just don’t mention me if you get busted 😉

[@jerusalemden]

AITA? My house rule (kinda the only one) for my 20yo son is "no cooking after midnight", since he raises such a racket in the kitchen. It used to be also "no showering after 2am", but that is quieter, so I gave this one up. The two permanent yellow stickers in my house are the following: one is inside the fridge and says "Every cheese has a right to its own packaging. The Cheese Rights Declaration, 2029" in defiance of my wifes' attempts to stuff the remaining morsels of different cheeses in one bag. The other one is in the shower, saying "Please keep the shower light OFF when not using the room. Grey Predators are attracted by light". Those would be mosquitoes. Noone heeds that one, actually, not even myself at times. Hope you had a smile reading this : )

[@DraconicDuelist]

Those are incredibly reasonable...

[@eyemoisturizer]

cheese rights

[@the_opossum_guy]

that's very reasonable. Only problem, you never defined when he could start cooking again. Your son is now permanently banned from any non-preprepared food.

[@EstelleLuminas]

Not the a**h*le. I am 17 and in all honesty that cheese one is reasonable. Like some cheeses have certain ingredients in them, and if someone is allergic to one of ingredients and they get mixed that could be pretty bad.

[@sunnyquinn3888]

I was afraid of fires as a kid too, I blame heavily dramatized episodes of shows about emergencies.

[@kespeth2]

14:35 So the one sin that is unforgivable to this Karen has is using her bathroom, even when the line to the other one is wrapping around the house? Talk about petty.

[@nellinightshade3358]

boy, there are some weird, weird people. i grew up in an era when you got out of the house after breakfast, went home mid-afternoon. drank out of handy hose-pipes in between. those were the days.

[@fionafiona1146]

Lead poisoning rates dropped shortly after those times

[@coupledyetivonvanderburg5385]

@@fionafiona1146 If you're getting lead poisoning from your hose, you're getting lead poisoning from your tap

[@fionafiona1146]

@@coupledyetivonvanderburg5385 I was more thinking about the time frame than possible (cheap fitting or pipe) associated neglect of random neighborhood water dispensing.

[@flamingpi2245]

@@coupledyetivonvanderburg5385 No, no, no Pipes are made of metal Hoses are made of plastics and rubbers left in the sun outside

[@sampaige1685]

I have lived in the same house since I was 1 until this present day, and so has this girl that STILL lives 6 houses down from me. We used to be best friends, stuff happens yk... anyways, im pretty sure it was when I was walking down her house (we were between 5-8, something like that) and I remember getting to her door and she came outside, hugged me, and I asked "Do you want to come down to my house? We have a swingset!" She answered me saying she wasnt allowed to go down to my house until she was older, which at the time made sense since we were, yk, young. Fast forward like 4-5 years: we're taking a walk, and I say "You should come down, my mom said were going to have a special dinner and wanted to see if you could come." "I wish I could- my dad wont let me." "What?? Why? We're alot older now." "He just wont let me, its weird" It made no sense, because she was allowed to go down into a coldisac way behind her house with no one but herself, but oOooOo nOoo you cant go to Sam's house. Why? You just cant. -_- Well 2 years later and I have my very first sleepover at her house. Her dad is off at work, so it's just her mom. Mom is giving me weird ass looks, like I'm on drugs or something. I think I was like 13, this woman knew who i was my whole life. Weird. Didn't offer me any food, ex-best friend ended up giving me food from her plate. She was finally allowed to come to my house, and walked over whenever she pleased. We were in my room and DESPERATELY wanted a sleepover at my house. Called her mom, said she needed time to think about it. Never answered back, so she went home late. Got in trouble lol??? And shed do the exact same thing to us every time we asked. Oh, and throughout the years she got a phone. She let me go through it, and I got to her DMS with her dad. It consisted mostly of her asking him stuff, and a recent text read "hey dad I'm going down to Sam's house." "Be safe, and remember to be a leader dont follow whatever that friend of yours does" like.. what-? We're 14 and 15 now, and I still wonder why they didn't like us lol.

[@ohnothepossum]

That sounds so controlling, damn. If you still live there, how is it by now? Have they gotten any better?

[@qaboos4]

My freshman year of college, my roommate, probably at his mother’s insistence, always went to bed at 6:30, his mother also threatened to sue mine if either of us moved his desk. Eventually, I was sitting outside my room in the dead of winter writing my freshman paper on William Faulkner because of the god damn dorm room in the dead of winter because I didn’t want to interfere with his stupid routines. This was the first time in my life I turned to literature to insult someone I didn’t like

[@RialVestro]

So strange rules... both involving my grandma's house... when we were kids, we weren't allowed to eat inside the house. Not just no eating in the living room or anything common like that but no eating in the house AT ALL. Only the adults could eat in the house and they could eat pretty much anywhere they wanted but the kids had to eat outside. This rule didn't apply when it was raining outside she wasn't that cruel, but as long as the sky was clear there would be a small kid's table set up outside and that's where my brother and I would eat. The other was when I got older and was staying with my Grandparents for a week in the summer, I was sleeping on the couch which was pretty common for me to do when sleeping in someone's house. Except her couch is already usually covered in pillows anyway so I just grabbed a pillow that was already there and started to lay down then she was like "What are you doing that's not a pillow!" I was dumbfounded... Um... it looks like a pillow, it feels like a pillow how is this not a pillow? She then proceeded to take all the pillows off the couch and hand me a blanket with a plain while pillow saying "Those are decorative only, we don't sleep on those. Make sure to put them back the way they were when you wake up I'm only doing that for you once." Weird but whatever... I started to just bring my own pillow after that so there's no confusion about which pillows are sleep pillows and which are just decorative. Oh... and I once knew a woman who had very specific rules about knocking when I came over... Not just that I should knock before entering which I can understand but that wanted me to knock three times, and ring the door bell twice in a very specific order because she thought it was "creepy" if little 4 year old me just knocked or rang the bell randomly. Oddly enough I actually knew TWO families who had lived in that same house. The first one, the kid's grandparents also happen to live in the house behind mine but his house was down the street from us. He was moving out but told me he would be back occasionally to visit his grandparents. There was an area in the yard that made a really good hiding spot the first kid had showed me and there were two older kids in high school who also lived on our road that would bully me and my brother. (Yes I was being bullied by kids more than 10 years older than me) anyway... I was hiding from those older kids on the property, the house was vacant at the time, when this other lady, the very specific knock/ring lady drives up to look at the house. At this point I come out of my hiding spot and ask her what she's doing there. She then asks me the same question and I tell her my friend use to live there but he moved away and now the house was empty. She then explained she might be moving into the house and mentioned that she had a son close to my age. Well they ended up moving in and her son ended up, throwing a rock at my head hitting me right between the eyes, it had a sharp edge so I started bleeding. I was sexually molested by this kid. And he was actually slightly older than me so when I started school there was already a rumor going around school about me so on my first day everyone already knew who I was... in the worst way possible... Now being that I was now 5 by this point it was actually pretty common for kids that young to do but even after I grew out of that phase I still got bullied for it... so my friend moved out and then a kid who pretty much made my life miserable moved into the same house. I stopped going over to that house after I realized the only person who could of spread that stuff about me around school had to be him. The only other kids in our school all started Kindergarten the same time I did, he was the only one in an upper grade level who could of said anything to anyone... and I didn't realize it at the time but looking back years later I think he did it to draw attention away from himself... in case I ever told anyone about his gross habits. But I was too young to even realize that there was anything sexual going on. So yeah... I hate that kid... and I really hope he never had children. I honestly have idea I haven't seen him in over 20 years. But I wish I never met that psycho kid or his psycho mother. Though it's possible the reason they were like that is because he was sexually abused by his father... I mean I never met a father, there didn't seem to be one in the picture... but that actually would explain the very specific knocking pattern so she'd know it was me and not her ex-husband and where he got the idea to even do that sexual stuff in the first place. But like seriously lady... if you knew that stuff was going on why let your kids play outside unsupervised with some random kid you barely know?

[@tiegz9770]

My friend had to ask her parents before she played with any of her own toys in her own room, especially her doll house. It never made sense to me because I was allowed to do whatever I wanted with my own stuff. Also that same friend would be bathed by both of her parents when she was seven. Then they would pick her up, place her on the table next to the sink and both rub lotion all over her. I dont think it was sexual but it was concerning, because she was old enough to do that herself. I don't know till what age this carried on for because her and I lost contact

[@CeruleanStar]

Many seven year olds still need help with bath time, especially if they are neurodivergent. My autistic and adhd neice is seven, and her parents and I still help her with her bath time ritual because she will forget the steps on her own, and is really anxious about trying new things. We're slowly teaching her how to do it herself at her own pace. She just isn't quite there yet, which is okay. Other parents just don't think much of it. Public bathing and family bathing are very common in many cultures. Nothing sexual about it. Nudity just isn’t seen as inherently sexual in many culture, especially when it comes to bathing. Given, I truly hope it was one of these reasons.

[@tiegz9770]

@@CeruleanStar it was definitely not the first reason, she was very intelligent (not that peoplen with autism and ADHD cant be intelligent) with zero signs of being neurodivergent and was even a whole year ahead of school for her age. This kid was a year younger than me but was able to tie her shoes before I was lol. Let's hope it was the second reason. I wish all the best for your niece, with a great aunt like you and good parents I'm sure she'll learn to be a lot more self sufficient xx

[@CeruleanStar]

@@tiegz9770 People would have said the same about me at that age, but I've been diagnosed as adhd and autistic as an adult. They used to only study the presentations of neurodivergence in boys, so they way it often presents in girls wasn't studied until recently. Neurodivergent girls still tend to be social, well behaved, etc. With little girls, it's things in their home lives, like chores and hygeine, that they often struggle with. Social differences in neurodivergent girls often don't start proving to be difficult until adolescence. Not that they can't cause difficulties for the child before then, only that they aren't always as noticeable to the child or caregivers. Either way, not saying she was one way or the other. Just thought I would clarify. And thanks for the kind words!

[@tiegz9770]

@@CeruleanStar girls and women definitely don't get diagnosed with things like that a soon as boys and men do, so it might be that. I'm 22 and was just diagnosed this week with adhd. It explains so many of my life experiences but no one would have guessed because I did well at school but I have other issues with inattentive adhd. I'm starting a low dose of medication this week and truly hope it helps me. I'm glad you were finally diagnosed, awareness makes finding solutions a lot easier xx

[@strawberryj3lly]

So my step dad (when we lived with him) wouldn’t allow me (age 17) to have a door knob with a lock on it, but my little brother (14) could, so my step dad’s grandsons could walk into my room at any given moment, I even got in trouble for smacking one because he walked in and tried taking a photo of me, every Friday was also cleaning day-everything in the house had be clean from top to bottom and if wasn’t done we’d had to redo it until it was done. Oh and bedtime was at ten and even tho I paid my on phone bill he still took it when he saw fit...things only got worse after I turned 18 and got my first bf-my mother had (and to this day still) this belief that he had a crush on me, which made me sick every time I think abt it.

[@DisturbingRainbow]

This is more like a collection of stories about child abuse

[@dianedenham5259]

Exactly. I feel so sorry for these children. 😔

[@princessmarlena1359]

Usually weird house rules and child abuse tend to intersect.

[@chickensouvlaki]

1:42 this mum's going to have a heart attack if you have sushi with soy sauce or french fries with ketchup

[@aheedehee6290]

My paternal grandmother did that whole not letting me leave the table until I completely ate everything on my plate. The thing is her cooking wasn't that great and it didn't matter to her if I just found the food nasty. I'm not 100% certain about it, but I'm fairly sure that her doing that caused me to become a picky eater, because I used to eat everything before she started doing that. Now I get mild anxiety/discomfort eating other people's foods and trying new things, and I'm hyperaware of food textures and tastes.

[@louisungor3036]

My aunt did this and made us eat all our food first before we could drink our juice or water

[@anene4914]

Some rules that comes from old superstition and has no facts backing it like, if you're cold you're going to get sick, don't have wet hair because you will get sick, or if you walk barefoot in your home you will get sick. The facts are you get sick by not washing your hands before you eat.

[@the11382]

The shoes rules are about the floor. Shoes on the floor mean a dirty floor.

[@Yawyna124]

I mean, you can get sick from being cold; directly from the cold you can get hypothermia, which will present somewhat akin to a sickness, though not necessarily a respiratory infection. Being cold can also weaken your immune response to things, increasing your chances of getting sick. As for wet hair; if it's "going outside with wet hair", it increases chances of hypothermia. If it's in other contexts, esp. sleeping with wet hair: this can increase chances of contracting a fungal infection of the scalp. Walking around barefoot, depending on how intact your soles are, you could, indeed, contract an infection from doing such.

[@user-bx4ti6ig3i]

My sister works as a nanny for a rich family. Well nannies talk when they're at the park. There's one family that has a 3 month old only daughter and she has 4 nannies and they're raising the child to sleep 12 hour a day without waking up. They're also raising her without love and her mothers touch.

[@the11382]

Thats child abuse. This reminds me of experiments done in the 50's and 60's. Kids need love, otherwise they will grow up messed up.

[@jayxfrost8987]

24:48 - It's completely normal in Europe.. actually it's considered rude to walk into someone's house with your shoes on. You're going OUTSIDE, your shoes are dirty af. Then your floors/carpets are dirty af.

[@dianedenham5259]

Yeah, this is quite common, don't know why anyone would be bothered about taking their shoes off in someone's home. (I'm assuming it's a normal, clean home)

[@lil-k1tty-m30w9]

makes sense

[@turtellok4964]

I live in Europe and it depends. You don't always take your shoes off, many people that I know don't even care

[@jupitersnoot4915]

@@turtellok4964 I think it depends on the flooring. If your house is all carpeted then it makes sense to take your shoes off. But if you have hardwood or tiled floors then I can see why people would be ok with shoes. Carpets hold dirt in that cannot be removed just by vacuuming, and you can't mop a carpet like you can a solid floor.

[@randomcow505]

@@jupitersnoot4915 if youve not got one already get a silicone carpet brush, its the most satisfying thing you will ever do while cleaning (the first time, after that its the best workout youll get while cleaning)

[@rightsock_asock5574]

13:34 that’s actually often a symptom of autism or adhd! I have both and I never eat anything out of order or switch it up at all

[@donthebandruid3625]

I think the weirdest thing about my grandpa's house is that there wasn't any rules at all.

[@Chepakishui]

I would think there would still at least be implied rules... like stuff that should be really obvious. Don't light a campfire in the middle of the living room for example

[@dannypipewrench533]

@@Chepakishui I do not know about the first guy's grandpa, but my grandpa usually got upset if we did not start a campfire in the middle of the living room.

[@masterchief6332]

3:38 my house was the exact opposite we were really loud compared to other people

[@PercabethYessss]

Lol, my friend and I make very weird jokes that my family don’t understand nor laugh at but her family does and super loud, but her brother… once he goes to bed, u make the smallest noise that he can hear like, normal volume talking (a bit louder actually but it’s normal for us loudees) and he hears it, he comes out and tells u to shut up :( he kinda annoying but not that bad so I don’t really mind cause it’s only at night and I only was there at night for a sleep over, if I’m there we are just hanging out though.

[@MasonBrown-qq7oq]

Not as extreme as most, but while playing CAH there's a "truth or dare" between the person with the winning card (of one round) and the losing card

[@randomone8811]

My friend couldn't eat or drink in her room because it was 'unladylike' but her brothers were allowed to, also they were not allowed to say 'haha" even if it was jokingly or the person being punished would switch punishments with the person who said haha.

[@Sly_Successor34]

I have seen house rules where the children are only allowed to eat beans n' weenies and another where the kids are only allowed to eat ketchup on noodles. This is all the while the parents eat pizza, steak and potatoes, and other different foods IN FRONT of their kids. A woman who only fed their stepdaughter peanut butter & jelly sandwiches and put a literal LOCK on the fridge and freezer so her stepdaughter "didn't boredom eat" as she told me when I asked years later. I've seen a lot of weird stuff concerning house rules. My mom would say "You've been here once or twice, then it's okay to ask for things. After that you're no longer just a guest and you can help yourself."

[@charlee_hotel]

This is just horrible! Then again, *SOME* kids WILL only eat those foods you listed no matter how much the parents try to introduce other, better tasting foods. So yes, my son will be eating noodles with ketchup (100% his choice) while his dad and I will eat rice, beans, and tenderized steak. And no, nothing to do with us being mean but all to do with: our son *HATING* the texture and flavor of meat, not liking beans, and liking rice if it's the Spanish kind (but only if it's all plain. So he rather eat the noodles with ketchup over eating the *ACTUAL* food I cook. That saddens me, because everyone else in my life has/had enjoyed my food 😭.

[@princessmarlena1359]

Where was CPS all that time? 🤦🏻‍♀️

[@Sly_Successor34]

@@princessmarlena1359 Honestly I have no idea. The ketchup and noodles kids were ALL foster children (so how they acquired them is an absolute mystery) and the neglected step daughter's Bible-thumping hypocrite of a step mother is a gulf war veteran who "looks good on paper". That's all I can assume about all em.

[@quit9488]

Bro imagine eating a boring PB&J sandwich and your parents are eating pasta,chocolate nuggets and pizza I was aloud to eat food that was not to sugary but not to heathy so I ended up eating sugar apples my whole life

[@trixie7759]

0:45 my family did a similar thing to my older sibling, I feel absolutely awful about it because she had to go to bed the same time I did, which was 8:30, but I mean last time I talked to her she did say it at least made sure she slept well throughout high school so I guess there can sometimes be a plus, but our parents also didn't flip if she was up later than that

[@indridcold8433]

Whoever smells the baby, changes the baby. So much for mum and dad being rhe responsible parents.

[@PercabethYessss]

Just avoid the baby, the parents can’t, cause there parents so they will smell it 1st and, wallah, baby is changed by now responsible parents!

[@suzettekath9860]

Good way of teaching kids on how to change the diapers. And it being for both genders. Too many guys are sperm donors in leaving the task to a female in their household.

[@Murhuedur]

@@suzettekath9860 Kids shouldn't be changing the diapers. They had no role or say in adding a new baby to the family so they don't bear any responsibility for it

[@suzettekath9860]

@@Murhuedur So teens should not learn on how to take care of children? What if those same teens are babysitting some other family's offspring. My man learned how to change diapers as a teen.

[@moxiemouse24]

@@suzettekath9860 what about the kids who weren't even teens? Or a little kid only 4-6 years old?

[@CaptainObliviousV]

1:20 she must be absolutely terrified of Chex Mix

[@suzettekath9860]

My ex-husband's family had some weird rules. I found out when his mother let me know. . ..No matter if it was a one, two, or a three. She had flattened the rolls of tp. You could only take the amount between each point. So the more a roll was used. The less one would get to use for on the toilet. ..To save water. She had a couple of rules. No flushing the toilet until several folks had used it. And the whole house had to all use the same bath water. She got mad at his brothers #2 & #3 when they put in a shower in the basement bathroom. ..Because it meant that the water could not be reused by several others. ..When it came to wrapping paper. Only kids under five were allowed to rip it off the present. From 5 on, they would use scissors to open up a present. This way the paper, especially the birthday stuff and Xmas stuff could be used for many a present over and over. I found out that rule when I ripped open a present. I was informed of that only young children acted like that. .. PB when placed on bread was to be done paper thin if even that thick. ..She would also harp on that supposedly one only needs about a quarter of a pound of meat per day.

[@juliusquasar1565]

Had a friend whose house rules required burning sage in an incense bowl, lighting two white candles on the mantle of the fireplace, and reciting an ancient prayer, before blowing out the candles. It always had to be done before dark.

[@princessmarlena1359]

Weird, wow! Was it a religious ritual, or…?

[@babiesdontpaytaxes.16]

i think forcing a kid to partake in something you believe in is wrong

[@seventyfourty]

8:15 I grew up like that aside from the no drinks part, I'd get half a glass of whatever I had to drink because my younger siblings made it a habbit of filling up on their drinks and they couldn't just exclude me from it because my siblings would have a hissy fit because I didn't get the same treatment as them, so whenever I was finally old enough to do certain things they were pretty much given immediate permission to do the same things because it wouldn't be fair to them, which I never understood why it had to be fair when I was told growing up "Life isn't fair" which I understood because there were a whole bunch of things my family were supposed to do (such as go on the Great Wolf Lodge cruise) but couldn't, either due to the fact we didn't have much money and/or my dad's boss at the time.

[@totaldimwitofficial]

8:10 when I lived with my grandmother she was like this but only if you got a second helping. She would not let you leave. Because of this rule, I almost missed a family night at rollarama because I almost didn't finish my dinner on time. She would also only let you have a small glass of water, if anything while eating. She is no longer like this and you can eat wherever and have whatever drink you think fits the meal best. But growing up, you HAD to eat in the kitchen or dining room, no drinks in the Livingroom and only small snacks were allowed in there, otherwise no food either.

[@krys9463]

My parents weren't that strict, in fact one of my favorite shows when I was a little kid was the X-files, so its funny to hear all these strange rules. However depending on where they lived the toilet paper rationing does make logical sense, if they lived in the city with a normal sewer system then its strange however if they lived in the country with a septic tank then it makes sense. Toilet paper doesn't always dissolve all the way so it ends up clogging everything and calling someone to fix it is a pain in the butt, which is why some brands are 'septic friendly'.

[@henry1851]

the first one, my family does that too (our house locks from the inside AND outside) but only because my little brother can and will escape if the door's unlocked. we"ve had to hang the keys higher and higher on the wall bc he's climbed to get them. I need a stepstool to reach them now

[@shattered0717]

I used to get apartments rent ready in a lot of low income neighborhoods or class C properties as we call them where I am from. You would be surprised at how many apartments I went in to where kids had lived and see those regular bed/bath door knobs where you can lock them from the inside but they have a dummy knob on the outside so you have to have a screwdriver, butter knife or something like that to unlock them, but often they would be flipped around on the kids rooms and the closets as if kids had been locked in. There was also a lot of evidence of kids and pets being locked in using the bathroom in the floors or trying to escape by scratching/clawing or using a tool to whittle at the door frame etc just terrifying and more than one apartment I saw like this. I even found in one apartment stuffed in a gap in between a baseboard and the floor where a child wrote mommy is mean and I want to die. Just awful, terrible stuff that you don't realize is happening but then there is no forwarding address. As stated in the video it also happens in nicer neighborhood lots of middle to upper middle class people who are alcoholics or hate their lives and take it out on their children and spouse I just never worked in any nicer neighborhoods as I was trying to make a difference in the not so nice neighborhoods by making sure the landlord who i worked for was not a slum lord but anyway and trying to give people with less money for rent, apartments that were clean, safe and functioned as they were meant to. That being said in reference to the 1st commentersstatement it could well be that the people who owned the house your friend bought had an autistic or otherwise mentally impaired (sociopath/psychopath/anti social personality etc) child who they felt was a danger to the other children, or themselves, when not on 24/7 supervision which no one can do as parents have to sleep. By padlocking the doors they were keeping the dangerous child away from the other children and by keeping the dangerous child confined also keeping that child safe, or dad (or mom I guess) could have been a sexual predator trying to have sleep sex with the kids basically sleep walking and trying to have sex not something they wanted to do but had that medical condition and could not help it as they are not in control of themselves when sleep walking and locked themselves out of the kids room at night, could also have had a family member with a history staying in their home, could be all sorts of things you just never know.

[@dianedenham5259]

Yeah, so many questions!!

[@Ivy99999]

Thumbs up for Grammy Balboa 👍😂 Respect my lady

[@kwstaspyrgakis9474]

I loved the whisper thing to the step-grandma🤣🤣🤣

[@Malisadlol]

I went over to a friend's house and their parents would absolutely die if we walked anywhere in the house with shoes on lmao

[@judithslone6472]

Some people are just plain WEIRD.

[@amira87]

Tbh,I have an only house rule,my room is in the attic basically and down below it's my father's and mother's room,and the rule is to basically not jump,not stomp,not throw hard things on the floor since for them it feels like the ceiling will fall off. That isn't a bad rule and I'm feeling bad for the others tho

[@ManiacalBlueberry]

I'm one of those people who eat food one at a time. I don't get all frizzed up when I see someone mixing good unless its an unholy mix (which is rare) I just don't really like two different flavors colliding and I hate the two different textures colliding even more. I also prefer plain food, which is lucky since I have digestive issues. Funny part is that I wasn't raised like this. It just happened.

[@God-ld6ll]

Can’t go outside because it is an infinite house.

[@Connor_Montgomery]

I'm getting some serious scp-3008 vibes here

[@God-ld6ll]

@@Connor_Montgomery there happens to be an scp that makes an interior “approachingly” infinite as long it is in it. Could be what made the Infkea.

[@Connor_Montgomery]

@@God-ld6ll that sounds interesting, which scp is it?

[@God-ld6ll]

@@Connor_Montgomery did some searching and it is SCP-184 Name: “Architect”. Have fun.

[@Connor_Montgomery]

@@God-ld6ll will do, thank you

[@kadenbane]

12:31 this one sounds like a South Park episode.

[@fishyfish201]

A long time ago me and my siblings were being babysat by some close family friends and they didn't let us drink water because they had too much milk. For the most part they were awesome, but if they ever happened to have too much milk I would do my best to avoid them.

[@princessfriendly8910]

I once went to my friends house for a play date when I was about 8. She'd said originally that we were going to the park. When we got there, the mom said we were going shopping, which was weird, but I thought maybe she was giving me and my friend money so we could buy things together like a shopping trip. But it wasn't like that. It was just a normal essential shopping trip (like groceries and cards and clothes for her own children) like I was being dragged along to it. She would choose all the clothes and decide on what they would wear even if they didn't want to wear it and wanted to wear something else.Then it got weirder. My friend asked for things to buy and then the mom would say she couldn't have it and then ask ME if I wanted it instead and she said that she would buy it for me. Then the 'play date' went on longer than expected because the mom had a lot of shopping to do and also the bus was delayed but the mom didn't think of calling my dad at all to explain even though she had his number. When we were finally back at my friends house after being dragged around town all day, my dad was really worried because we were super late and my dad had no idea where we were.

[@alyssarasmussen1723]

i wouldve said yes to her buying it for me and then i would give it to the friend instead

[@princessfriendly8910]

@@alyssarasmussen1723 Ugh why didn't I think of that!😭 That's such a good idea! I just didn't think of that unfortunately and I just refused it instead

[@arcadeii]

oh my god, one of my friend’s moms didn’t tell our parents where we were for 5 hours. we were supposed to be home at 5. we got home at 10.

[@princessmarlena1359]

Wow, that’s really creepy. Sorry for you and your friend, I mean can you imagine having to _LIVE_ with that, not just witness it as a guest?

[@princessmarlena1359]

@@alyssarasmussen1723 very clever 👍

[@765LT_]

"sink it is then" had me dying

[@spoilersxpodcast428]

I remember when I was younger I went to a friends house and the girls mom made us wash our eyebrows after dinner? Soap and everything. Apparently they did it everyday. Never went back

[@theidiotfromspace]

There was one rule that my parents made me follow until the age of 16, it was ‘No funny business’. I learned what they meant when I was 10..

[@todronitheunicorn5826]

My friend's mom and dad are really strict and her younger sister was really spoiled and whenever she spill's like soda or juice on the concrete her parents force her to clean it up with vinegar and a rag cuz they want the concrete to stay light gray or whatever.

[@SEAkuaa]

4:30 my house ducking has that. It definitely wasn't for anything weird because they apparently didnt live there according to neighbors. They came like every once and awhile. They also have a child lock (The one where you gotta squeeze weirdly) towards the basement (Not outside it.)

[@ahmed7xc343]

When I was like 12,I used to go to my friend house once a week and he did the same When i went to his house I was forced to eat lunch(meat only) with them and if I didn't his mom would yell at me and she wouldn't let me play One time I ate a burger and when I went home and I vomited all day long My mom did the same(ish)thing When my friend came over to our house my mom once forced him to eat like 3 sandwiches a Steak and some fruit after that he vomited all the food he ate

[@lil-k1tty-m30w9]

THAT HORRIFYINGLY STUPID, IF YOU FGRT THE CORRECT AGE OF BEING AN ADULT, MOVE THE HELL OUT

[@williamgabriel2245]

"No full auto in buildings" . I find that ridiculous, It wasn't even full auto.

[@davidotoole2853]

That one about dads chair… that is disgusting

[@lookintoinfinity]

I went over to a friends house when I was like 10 for her birthday sleepover. wasn't allowed to wake up early. the next morning she wanted to play a princess make believe game and I dont like make believe much so I asked not to, got screamed at by her mother. left right after that as my mom was almost there and I waited outside. the friend's mother sent my mother angry texts yelling at her and cursing. didnt see her after that. TLDR: got yelled at for asking to not play a game

[@rocoloco43]

Bro that tube water made gag. And i work as maintenance. I literally have to clean shit. And still made me gag.

[@SnepBlepVR]

When I was a young adult one of my female friends was living with an older lady because of financial difficulties (I think she was her god mother) her god mother would have random men come in and have naughties with her but my friend was 1 supposed to ignore it and 2 was not allowed to do things for herself including having romatics but she was allowed to have friends spend the night. Even guys. No sex though. That was a “sin” the old lady was eventually arrested for prostitution.. turns out she was actually protecting my friend. Still weird though.

[@eclipseslayer98]

I was at a wedding once at someone's house, and the men had to use a port-a-potty, while the women could use the indoor toilets. It's kind of understandable, but still struck me as a bit odd.

[@charlee_hotel]

These are all insane. I can't believe people like this exist. When kids come to play with my son, here are the only rules (and I believe are somewhat reasonable): 1. Must always remain downstairs. 2. Unless clogged, the 1/2 downstairs is the only one to use. Hands must be washed. 3. Only things kids are allowed to touch are toys (since they're two toy chest downstairs), video-games, and books from the designated bookshelves. 4. Partially unsupervised outside time it's only allowed in the backyard. Partially means that I will only be checking through the windows and/or doors. Hands must always be washed upon entry. 5. Water is unlimited: must use from the pack of disposable cups next to the fridge that dispenses the (filtered) water. 6. When in doubt, wash hands. I think those are pretty sensible rules. Nothing insane.

[@RialVestro]

The everyone shares a bath story... F no I still would have refused, I don't care. I was in someone's house who had a rule that everyone had to shower before bed... I never did... partly because I'm generally uncomfortable to showering in someone else' house in the first place, and it didn't help that the bathroom door didn't have a lock on it... There's also the fact that no one told me about this before I went over there and I just figured I would shower and change when I got home the next day so I didn't even bother bringing a change of cloths when I was only going to be there for one night. I might have sucked it up and took a shower if I was going to be there longer than over night... and there was a lock on the bathroom door... but I was really paranoid about someone walking in on me and no way in hell am I going to use someone bathroom any longer than I absolutely have to with no privacy lock on the damn door. If there was a rule about everyone sharing bath water I don't care how long I'm staying there I'm not getting in that. I'd be cleaner NOT taking a bath than soaking in the filth of 5 other people who were in the same bath before me. I think you could get an STD that way.

[@Yawyna124]

The "everyone shares one bath" thing is a holdover from people living rural where there isn't running water so that drawing a bath requires someone fill the basin from water pulled from the well and heated prior. The people who had it as house rules probably kept going at it after it was no longer necessary because it was just comfortable to them-- although manners of lots of people would generally dictate that guests go first for the sake of hospitality.

[@XxBenisweirdxX]

There was someone who wernt allowed to open the blinds/curtains without their parents permission. Its hard to think such a weird rule is because of abuse :(

[@Julian-qs8xq]

19:20 that shit is heavy

[@lorrainehatch4308]

We have a separate girls, little and boys bathroom, and if you don’t qualify you have to ask someone who is qualified, we are a family of nine and me and my little siblings go in the girls bathroom, never in the boys bathroom

[@johnmichaels.1212]

I have a friend who can only game on weekends. That in itself wouldn’t be weird, but there aren’t any time restrictions on it whatsoever(he can be gaming at like 1 am and it’s fine). This only applies to video games. Not KZbin or Netflix. Just games.

[@B_g1117]

my really religious friend wasnt aloud to say god unless he was praying or talking about him, they also let him play games online he just wasnt aloud to communicate with strangers

[@indridcold8433]

One is not supposed to talk to Stangers in a real life setting. It exposes one to a lot of dangers.

[@PercabethYessss]

That’s pretty normal cause not saying god is a religious thing and not talking to strangers online is just safety, I still do though cause I’m cautious

[@indridcold8433]

@@PercabethYessss Online is not very dangerous. They can do little to you online. But in reality, talking to Strangers is very dangerous. Thus has confused me a lot throughout my life. The idiot doctors tell me I need to be more social. However, I was brought up never to talk to strangers. That poses a paradox. How am I supposed to meet others if it is programmed into my head that I should not talk to strangers. When I ask the doctors if I should talk to strangers, even they say no. Then they wonder why I have no friends. I guess I am erring in the side of safety first. Nobody really needs to be social anyway. We are not wildebeest, zebra, impala, that require herds to live. I can live alone.

[@dianedenham5259]

@@indridcold8433 : talking to strangers on-line can be psychologically dangerous, esp for children.

[@indridcold8433]

@@dianedenham5259 For children, I fully agree. There is way too much danger to allow a child to talk to anybody online or even just correspond using written text. But for adults, I do not think there is much anybody online can do to each other. For instance, I could have a gun and threaten to kill you right now. What is that really going to do to you save make you laugh? You could threaten to ruin my life by saying you will tell all my friends that I cheated on my wife. I would laugh at that as well, especially since I have neither a wife nor friends. We really can do nothing to each other. We are just text to each other.

[@HypercatZ]

1:00 Man! That reminds me of when I was waking early to watch Sonic Satam and have my morning wood on Sally Acorn and Bunny Rabbot. Good times!

[@nicardosaunders9525]

I went to a new friend's house in grade 4, and i wasn't allowed to stand up and pee, we are still friends but I don't go to his house often

[@TheMultiGamerOfficial]

12:50 is honestly me, except I don't force it onto others. I eat the same lunch everyday, and I eat it in a specific order, then hate myself if I don't.

[@nimbusttp_archive]

19:26 “I hopped off that chair like a shot” I know too many people that would be more encouraged to sit in the chair and get their friend walloped, he was a good friend

[@alisterfolson]

My SO doesn't drink anything with her dinner, eats food still piping hot or use napkins at the table. Not sure if it's from her being Canadian or growing up poor.

[@princessmarlena1359]

Definitely grew up poor. Sounds like a couple of my exes.

[@carlfromtheoc1788]

Some of these are borderline child abuse, some are idiotic rules laid down by absolute nutters, and I think a majority (by a decent margin) are enacted by women (could be wrong on the percentages).

[@nataliealphonse4634]

And then there's the one that just is actual child abuse, it happens a lot more than people admit/are willing to look into

[@Dice-Z]

Not borderline. Straight up child abuse.

[@supergoober1021]

So, it could be a majority by an indecent margin of women?

[@betteryou665]

15:55 had something like that once, while my dad and my mother was at a show or a business meeting, I went to a daycare. we stayed in the main living room/dining room area. while the son played video games in a backroom. in the living room area there were a few too many children. once I the people there hit me for no reason, I started crying, went into the backroom and saw this chump playing a fake version of Minecraft on his iPad. he let me play Minecraft and could only say I was glad to return home after that experience. btw only know am reliesing how weird they were

[@tzisorey]

Somehow, the one with the husband having a heart attack.... my mind immediately jumps to her worrying about the mess, because the husband would beat her if he saw the mess.

[@tzisorey]

You HAVE to stop making a mess, he'll be *_furious_* if there's a mess... even if he's dead.... *_ESPECIALLY_* if he's dead...

[@turtellok4964]

@@tzisorey I don't know in which universe this makes sense

[@tzisorey]

@@turtellok4964 The universe of a battered wife? You'd be surprised the thoughts they can have.

[@randomcow505]

I think its a coping mechanism, my grandma loved my mother to death, and was so worried with my birth that she got agressive with the doctors over the fact she was about to miss emmerdale if the baby dident come soon it wasent about the show, it was about needing to be slightly worried over something else so she dident have to be extremily worried over my mother

[@Mars_Among_Stars]

The steak one reminds me of whenever my family went to a restaurant, my dad would throw a fit over the order we ate our food in. It HAD to be meat, vegetables then carbs. This is because "the meat is the most expensive" according to him and we'd waste his money in his eyes if we ate any other way

[@kimhohlmayer7018]

I love how you include great comments added to the original posts. Others do that but you find better comments than these other posters.

[@HeiwaTori]

Everytime i came home with a new friend my mum would say "we have 1 rule" & then my friend would look scared & then my mum would say "after the first time you come here, help yourself to any food in the kitchen :D" it was really funny seeing the look of panic go to one of confusion & then smiles

[@surlywithfabshoes]

Now I don’t know how I eat. I need to have a test meal to see if I put more than one type of food in my mouth at the same time. I eat everything randomly but I’m not sure if I combine them in my mouth. *sighs and gets a steak and potato out and slams them on counter*

[@nicardosaunders9525]

I once had to go to bed at 6PM when I was sleeping over at a "friends" house, I was 7 years old and I wanted to go home instantly.

[@Penguin_of_Death]

5:40 So these people bought a 'nice house', but didn't view it before buying? That's weird in itself...

[@kenorta56]

22:08 badass grandma

[@dianedenham5259]

As a lefty I concur. 👍

[@progamerrzr1]

never went to anyone's house as a kid

[@dianedenham5259]

After reading these stories you probably were better off.

[@kingcrafteroderderfahradtu7331]

8:47 it exist but it doesn't have many members. It would be nice if some of you joined and posted strange rules and explanations there Its called whythatsarule

[@cosmic005]

Well the one of the food. I think it is normal, my parents also told me that if I didn't finished my food I would have to eat it later or no candy. If I was just tired of being at the table and not eat they would tell me that I am not going out of the table if I didn't finish the food. Actually I think it is a good way of teaching your kid to eat all that's given even if you don't like it. The would also tell me that in other parts if the world people had nothing to eat.

[@jupitersnoot4915]

No that's not a good thing. Forcing your kids to eat more than they're supposed to at their age only causes them to be unable to tell when they've had enough as an adult and they get fat later in life. If your parents just fed you proper portions correct for your age then they wouldn't need to force it down your throat to get you to finish it...

[@capn7298]

"You can't ration toilet paper" What a wild year we had to make this statement false

[@definitelynotacat1945]

That grandma punching that auntie in the face is officially, now an inspirational piece of art.

[@depressed_bi_bitch3615]

18:28 is a good friend I’m glad he got up after being told the dad would beat him

[@punk09t]

Dude I would curse my family with the one where EVERYBODY drops their fork if one person did

[@panzerkitsune]

7:22 made me splurt out my drink and cough in laughter XD